I was instructed in a college class to find a pen pal to write to, in order to connect with others on a form of communication that has been lost in our now fast paced world of technology. Through the world of computers and pure fate, I stumbled upon Brannon on a pen pal website! After a compliment was made about his adorable Pembroke Welsh Corgi on his profile picture and discussions about how old people tell the best stories… Brannon and I decided what better way to continue our interesting and thought provoking conversations but through pen and paper.
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Suggestions of visiting one another came to mind, but then diminished after realizing the fear of “How could one travel to visit a person on the other side of the country, without physically meeting them?” Thoughts of, “What if he is a con artist? What if she is this man in a jail cell, conjuring up lies, in order to only kill him when she gets out?” Therefore, I suggested if after a year this friendship ~pen pal relationship was still intact, I would go ahead and visit Brannon. Also I Googled him to make sure he was a real person and that helped! Brannon agreed.
Then we met and all is history! He liked me, I liked him, and we had chemistry. Though I had to go back to Washington and finish college, Brannon flew to see me just a few months after my visit. After a couple months passed, I did the same, meeting him half way in Las Vegas, Nevada. Eventually, Brannon visited me one last time on my graduation ceremony, and then we both went on a cross country road trip for a week. We drove through the Cascades, over Death Valley, camped in the Grand Canyon, passed through the endless roads of Texas, and finally reaching Tallahassee, Florida. I spent a few days with Brannon before I had to go to Miami for a volunteer opportunity. After a week or so, and that volunteer opportunity fell through. I decided to just up and leave in the middle of the night, while discretely leaving a note , of course. Then off I drove back to Tallahassee! I knocked at Brannon’s apartment back door, in the wee hours of the early morning, and asked if I could stay with him.
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WE have been inseparable since!